Gregory Mullen

Gregory Mullen was Chief of Police of Charleston, South Carolina from August 2006 to June 2017, succeeding Reuben Greenberg.

Biography
Gregory Mullen was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and he served in the US Air Force before becoming a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in 1982 and joining the Virginia Beach police department in 1985. In October 2006, he was hired to replace the retiring Reuben Greenberg as Chief of Police of Charleston, South Carolina, facing a surge in gun violence and homicides. He made it his priority to improve the police department's technological and analytical capabilities, and the soft-spoken Mullen was able to install video cameras in high-crime areas and tourist zones and use computer software to map criminal hotspots. He later pushed for gun restrictions in the state and a crackdown on repeat offenders, and he retired in 2017 after feeling that he had accomplished all of his goals.